Welcome back to Baby Watch for week #22! It is a new week and a new year, yippee!! Erin and the baby have made the transition to 2010 just fine and both are doing great. The baby has been continuing its on board gymnastics routine. According to Erin anyway, still no love for us in the outside world. Other then that there is not a lot to report this week. Erin told me she read in one of her books that things seem to move slower after week 20. I didn’t really beleive it, but here we are at week number 22 and as far as I am concerned this is like waiting on molasses in December. Especially after we got to go see Steph and Andy’s new baby Jackson last week. Erin says we have to wait and I can’t wish for the baby to be here now because it is not time. But seriously this is coming from a girl who opened this years Christmas presents on December 13th!
Some good news regarding the registry stuff I spoke of last week. Erin’s BFF Kelly came though in a big way. Since Kelly just recently had her little baby girl Avery, she went with Erin and helped her finish up the registry. She knows all the ins and outs about what bottle does what, why this car thing is better then that one, and doesn’t just stare with a blank look at the term “breast pump“. So needless to say things went much better then when it was Erin and I. Although to be clear I am still way better at working the scanner gun then either one of them!
On to what the baby site has to say for week #22~
Baby’s Growth and Development at 22 Weeks Pregnant
During your 22nd week of pregnancy, your baby is starting to discover a world around him as his senses continue to develop.
- When you’re 22 weeks pregnant, your baby is about 7 1/2 to 8 inches long head to rump, around the length of a head of cabbage, and weighs about 1 pound.
- Your baby’s sense of touch and taste progress significantly this week.
- Taste buds begin forming.
- Your baby’s brain and nerve endings mature enough to process the sensation of touch.
- Your baby’s reproductive system continues to develop. In a boy, his testes begin to descend. In a girl, her ovaries and uterus now are in place and her vagina develops. She already has all of the eggs she’ll need for her own reproductive life.
- When you’re 22 weeks pregnant, the surface of your baby’s brain, which has previously been smooth, begins to develop folds. This creation of hills and valleys in the brain will continue until the 34th week of pregnancy, when your baby’s brain will have enough surface area for a full complement of brain cells.
- Your baby continues to hear sounds from the outside world. Although these sounds are muffled behind the amniotic fluid and the protective covering of vernix, your baby soon recognizes your voice.
Head of a cabbage this week, pretty impressive! Nice to see we have reached the one pound mark too. Probably from all the great cooking I have been doing for Erin at night! See ya next week!
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